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ADD09 Addictions - Resilience and Addiction
The purpose of this module is to present “The Challenge Model,” an expansion of Wolin's previous research on adult children of alcoholics to adult survivors of a broad range of troubled families.

ADL04 Adolescence - Angry Adolescents
The purpose of this module is to present how to create alliances with angry and disillusioned adolescents that allow and encourage them to implement affirmative change themselves.

BPD06 Borderline - Impact on Families
The purpose of this module is to present managing the tasks and dilemmas that families of persons with Borderline Personality, while at the same time not blaming the person with BPD.

DIS01 Dissociative Disorders - Overview
This module presents an explanation of dissociation and a beginning understanding of Multiple Personality Disorders. This module provides clinicians and caretakers with the opportunity to gain an understanding of this controversial clinical entity.

DSM02 DSM-5 - Feeding and Eating Disorders
When it comes to eating disorders, new knowledge has generated the single biggest change in the DSM-5: a move away from categorizing eating disorders by age, to a united system of feeding and eating disorders. By combining the symptomatology, it is more possible to study the links, avoiding the generational disconnects.

DSM03 DSM-5 - Personality Disorders
Prior to the DSM-5, personality disorders were coded on Axis II. But now the DSM-5 has done away with the use of “axes” for diagnostic coding, and the good news is there is a new conceptualization of personality disorders away from undesirable or negative personality features and towards a conceptualization of personality disorder as an impai
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DSM04 DSM-5 - PTSD in Preschool Children
The DSM-5 includes a new developmental subtype of PTSD called “Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Preschool Children.” This represents a significant step for the DSM taxonomy, and I am happy to be able to report that the general consensus is that the APA got something right. The sense is that regarding the entire PTSD category, the DSM-5
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DSM05 DSM-5 - Depressive Disorders
Now, the developers of the DSM-5 have recognized that while most people have grief reactions within a typical range, 10 to 15 percent of grievers have severe reactions to the loss of a loved one and thus may need treatment that includes prescription medication and therapy. So now, a person who is grieving a loss potentially may be diagnosed w
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EME02 Emerging Adulthood - The Transformational Self
Harry Bendicsen, LCSW, is concerned with the processes that propel the transition from adolescence to adulthood. In his book, "The Transformational Self: Attachment and the End of the Adolescent Phase", he takes major trends in psychological thinking: psychoanalytic theory; complexity theory; attachment theory; relational theories; linguistic theor
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EME03 Emerging Adulthood - The New and Old Family
Dr. Maxine Wintre’s research addresses the ignored role of parents in the psychological health and life transitions of emerging adults. In part, it explains why parents have been left out of the picture and then describes more recent theories and research, investigating perceived reciprocity with parents and social support, perceived stress, depres
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ETH101 Ethics - The Challenge and Dilemma of Technology
This program focuses on the challenges facing us in a world where boundaries are loosened and technological developments allow for forms of therapy that are not always conducted face-to face. In addition, this program focuses on what it truly means to be an ethical therapist, not merely one who merely follows the codes or rules.

ETH102 Ethics - and Countertransference
This program takes a close look at countertransference, often at the root of ethical transgressions. For clarification, briefly, countertransference is defined as redirection of a psychotherapist's feelings toward a client—or, more generally, as a therapist's emotional entanglement with a client.

ETH103 Ethics - and Self Disclosure
This program takes a look at the relationship the Therapists and clients share. It is paid and emotionally intimate but the intimacy is pretty one-sided. When the therapist chooses to reveal personal information to the client, it could help the client’s therapeutic goals, or it could backfire. Technology verses self-disclosure ope
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ETH104 Ethics - The Ethics of Human Relating
This program focuses on the goals of ethics education and how it can be characterized as broadly encompassing
two dimensions: defensive and
enhancing. It strives to prevent
misconduct and to developing a professional identity which includes a lifelong
commitment to acting ethically. It has
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